Another manifesto!
I wrote The Manifesto to be that annoying “you can do it” voice in the background.
Manifesto project
Love this manifesto project Manifesto
Here is one of many
The cult of Done Manifesto | Manifesto:
The cult of Done Manifesto
01 There are three states of being.
Not knowing, action and completion.
02 Accept that everything is a draft.
It helps to get done.
03 There is no editing stage.
04 Pretending you know what you’re doing
is almost the same as knowing what you
are doing, so just accept that you know
what you’re doing even if you don’t
and do it.
05 Banish procrastination. If you wait more
than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
06 The point of being done is not to finish but
to get other things done.
07 Once you’re done you can throw it away.
08 Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps
you from being done.
09 People without dirty hands are wrong.
Doing something makes you right.
10 Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11 Destruction is a variant of done.
12 If you have an idea and publish it on the
internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13 Done is the engine of more.
Libya
The West is no friend of Libya’s revolt
http://www.iso.org.nz/news/23/644-the-west-is-no-friend-of-libyas-revolt.html
Wednesday, 23 March 2011 05:22
by Simon Assaf
Western military intervention in Libya is being sold to us as “humanitarian intervention” to defend the revolution.
The uprising against Muammar Gaddafi’s brutal regime that began on 17 February remains an inspiration.
Gaddafi responded with attacks on civilians, the aerial bombardment of demonstrations, mass round-ups and executions.
This left many people in despair, and feeling that Western intervention was the only solution to save their lives.
But the West’s interests are not those of the Libyan revolution.
Western governments are not innocent or impartial. They are using this opportunity to reassert their influence in the region.
The ruling class has been rocked by the mass popular revolutions which brought down their allies—Ben Ali in Tunisia and Mubarak in Egypt.
If the West’s support for popular revolutions against violent dictators is genuine, then why are they not supporting all the revolutions?
Where is the challenge to the repression of protests in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Yemen?
Earthquake Fatigue
Nice little item, rings true.
Earthquake fatigue | Stuff.co.nz:
We’re all in this together and we all have earthquake fatigue.
Surviving this disaster isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon. It would be nice to see your smiling faces at the finish line, New Zealand.
Cafes
Working Best at Coffee Shops – Conor Friedersdorf – Business – The Atlantic:
It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write. ~ Ernest Hemingway
The post is an ode to working in coffee shops. I do it, love it! Pity I’m quitting caffeine, tho I must say decaf is just fine, it meets the ritualistic requirements
Meditation & Sam Keen’s Blog
I’ve just been on a walk for a few hours and recorded a meditation, on the psyche. In some ways not unlike this one by Sam Keen, but the execution here is superb. I might work on mine, I began with the notion that the meditation was just for me. Refining it might be a way to enhance it.
Here is a bit of Sam Keens meditation on the self, I like his references to DNA and to the macro & micro.
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Chestnut Hill for the Psychodrama Workshop
Up at Chestnut Hill . Putting up photos, learning the Mac OS Tomorrow the training workshop begins.
Photo on Blacks Spur. In the Yarra National park.
Health and weight
Health At Every Size (HAES): A new paradigm for weight:
Health At Every Size (HAES): A new paradigm for weight
There are many factors to consider when examining the relationship between weight and health. There is a discrepancy between what is regarded by the media and the community to represent the ‘ideal’ body type and the level at which excess weight provides a significant health risk. Eating Disorders Victoria (EDV) maintains that, for people at moderate levels of overweight, the dangers of excessive dieting, poor body image and eating disorders far outweigh the majority of physical health concerns.
Alice Miller obituary
Alice Miller obituary | Science | The Guardian
Sue Cowan-Jenssen http://www.guardian.co.uk
Alice Miller, who has died aged 87, was an influential and controversial figure in the world of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Her first book, The Drama of the Gifted Child (1979), sold millions worldwide. A Freudian analyst, she described how a child’s need for love was often exploited by parents in order to meet the parent’s own unmet needs. Unable to express their true feelings, these children grow up unhappy and depressed, out of touch with their real selves.
In For Your Own Good (1980), she introduced the concept of “poisonous pedagogy” to describe the child-rearing practices that were so prevalent in Europe, especially before the second world war. She believed that the pain inflicted on children – “for their own good” – was unconsciously the parent re-enacting the trauma that had been inflicted on them when they were children. Thus the cycle of trauma continued down the generations.
Empathy
In his latest book, Zero Degrees of Empathy: A new theory of human cruelty, Baron-Cohen, argues that the term evil is unscientific and unhelpful. “Sometimes the term evil is used as a way to stop an inquiry,” Baron-Cohen tells me. “‘This person did it because they’re evil’ – as if that were an explanation.”
That makes such sense to me. I really hated that book by the author of “The Road Less Traveled”, “People of the Lie” where he postulates some people as evil. Interestingly I noted that that author, forget his name right now, lacked empathy in his case studies of so called “evil” people. I think it was a case of him wanting to make his clinical work match some rather hidden fundamentalist doctrines about original sin.